Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd.
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About
Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd. provides investment management and consulting services primarily to individual clients seeking wealth building, retirement planning, and personalized portfolio oversight. Its offerings include a total-portfolio personal portfolio management service, separately managed equity-focused accounts (including small- and mid-cap growth and equity income strategies), and periodic portfolio or wealth-building consultations.
The firm’s investment approach blends fundamental, economic, and quantitative analysis with proprietary valuation and portfolio construction techniques developed by its lead investment professional with an academic background. It emphasizes a total-portfolio and layered asset-allocation process—coordinating assets across custodians, using direct equities, ETFs and closed-end funds, and aiming for cost- and tax-efficient implementation.
Distinctively, the firm operates at a small scale as an effectively single portfolio manager operation and manages a limited client base—approximately $30 million in assets under management for 22 clients—rather than a broad institutional or high-net-worth clientele. The firm highlights its academic-based investment perspective, proprietary methods, and a history of sponsoring a small-cap fund (closed in 2016), and it reports investing alongside clients while avoiding performance-based fees or third-party sponsorship arrangements.
Client services
Expertise
Fee options
$0 - $2,000,000: 0.65% annually $2,000,000 - $4,000,000: 0.50% annually $4,000,000+: 0.35% annually
$100 to $500 per hour for investment consulting fees
Minimum fee: $2,000 annual minimum fee applied quarterly as $500 per quarter minimum for personal portfolio management services Fee-only: Investment consulting offered at hourly rates ranging from $100 to $500 per hour
Main office
Waxhaw NC
Advisors at this office
2
Most active in
North Carolina
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Forms ADV
Advisors at this firm
Reagan B
Series 65
Waxhaw, NC
Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd.
Reagan Brittain is a Series 65 licensed advisor at Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd. with three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Ascendant Capital Research in 2021, he worked at Georgia-Pacific, LLC and Rheem Manufacturing Company. Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd. provides investment management and consulting services primarily to individual clients focused on wealth building and retirement planning. The firm employs a total-portfolio, layered asset-allocation approach combining fundamental, economic, and quantitative analysis with proprietary valuation and portfolio construction techniques.
Thomas C
CFA®
Waxhaw, NC
Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd.
Thomas Crawford is a CFA® charterholder associated with Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd., with 9 years of industry experience. He has a professional background that includes 12 years at Wingate University and over two decades with Ascendant Capital Research. Ascendant Capital Research, Ltd. provides investment management and consulting services primarily to individual clients focused on wealth building and retirement planning. The firm employs a total-portfolio and layered asset-allocation approach using fundamental, economic, and quantitative analysis alongside proprietary valuation and portfolio construction techniques.
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